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Operation Paperclip-- the end of Nazi Germany; the start of our Space Program

At the end of World War II, there was a race between the Russians and the Americans to plunder the scientific knowledge of the Nazi regime. Operation Paperclip was the code name this technically illegal program operated under.

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

There’s a common image of a red and white sign for Area 51 you can find

Operation Paperclip-- the end of Nazi Germany; the start of our Space Program

1.
OPERATION
PAPERCLIP

2.
This was an OSS, Office of Strategic Services,
program which brought over 1,500 Germans to the
United States after World War II.
Operation Paperclip

3.
The OSS was in a race with the Russians at the
end of the world to reap the cream of the Nazi
scientific corps and utilize them.
The OSS was the precursor to the CIA.
Operation Paperclip

4.
President Truman formally signed the authorization
for Paperclip in August 1945, but the race for the
Nazi braintrust had even as the war ended.
Operation Paperclip

5.
Truman’s order prohibited any person who had been an
“active supporter of Nazi militarism”. This exclusion was often
ignored.
The most valued scientists came out of the Nazi missile
program.
Operation Paperclip

6.
There were also
scientists who’d
worked in the Nazi
chemical weapons
program. There was
also Operation Alsos
which focused on
Nazi nuclear
scientists and
Operation TICOM
which went after
German cryptologists.
Operation Paperclip

7.
Werner Von Braun is one of the more famous of these
scientists. He worked on the V-2 program and then the
United States rocket program, especially the Apollo
program. He’d been a member of the Nazi Party and
the SS.
Operation Paperclip

8.
Also part of Operation Paperclip, was the recruitment of Japanese scientists
and doctors from the infamous Unit 731. That is the subject of a different
slideshare.
Operation Paperclip

9.
It is estimated that Paperclip scientists ended up
contributing over 10 billion in patents and industrial
processes, as well as critical help to our space
program.
Operation Paperclip

10.
Do the ends justify the means?
Besides wanting the expertise, and denying it to the Russians,
another aspect of Paperclip was to remove these scientists from
post-war Germany so they couldn’t contribute to their own
country.
Operation Paperclip

11.
What if there were more to Operation Paperclip
than we know? Parts of it are still classified to this
day.
While Von Braun and others worked at Fort Bliss,
what if some were sent to Area 51 to study a rather
unique problem?
Operation Paperclip

12.
A maxim of writing is:
Write What You Know.
The links that follow represent that and three additions. I have four pillars to my
stories and you'll see that reflected:
What I know?
What do I want to know
What interests me?
What am I passionate about?
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Cool Gus and his niece Sassy Becca (below) hope you find it interesting!

13.
In the first book in the Area 51 series, one of those
scientists from Operation Paperclip plays a key role.
Area 51

14.
Area 51- Book OneSince before the dawning of modern man, an
alien mothership and nine abandoned flying
saucers have been hidden away in Area 51, a
top-secret military base in the Nevada desert.
There, scientists have studied the crafts, hoping to
unlock the secrets of the alien technology and,
perhaps, the origins of life on Earth. But now a
deranged general wants to activate the
mothership’s interstellar drive—and the
consequences could prove catastrophic for
humankind.
Dr. Hans Von Seeckt—an elderly scientist, ex-
Nazi, and original member of the Area 51
research team—joins up with the president’s
science adviser, Dr. Lisa Duncan, and Special
Forces officer Mike Turcotte to put a stop to the
planned test flight and tell the public the truth
about Area 51. Meanwhile, a brilliant
archaeologist, Professor Nabinger, discovers a
message on runes found in ancient Egypt that
could change everything we think we know about
human evolution and the role that alien visitation
may have played in it.

15.
There are some free books on my freebies page at my web site.
I blog occasionally about random thoughts, Cool Gus and ‘stuff’.
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